Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, July 9, 1997

Johnson, who set the team's record in 1995 with 34 field goals and 141 points, was waived.

Jacke, 31, was an unrestricted free agent who has played the past eight years with the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers. After Jacke signed, the Packers announced that they had signed rookie Brett Conway, a third-round draft pick out of Penn State.

-- The Jacksonville Jaguars have six weeks to work out a new contract with quarterback Mark Brunell. In the final year of a three- year contract, which pays him a base salary of $1.2 million this year, Brunell told his agent to close contract talks when training camp opens July 20.

-- Former Washington State linebacker James Darling, convicted of second-degree burglary and fourth-degree assault, will spend 35 days in jail, a sentence that will allow him to report to the Philadelphia Eagles training camp.

-- Baylor quarterback Jeff Watson has been sentenced to 90 days' probation after pleading no contest to charges that he was drunk and disorderly at a Waco, Texas, restaurant last week.

-- SOCCER

CLASH SIGN

GOALIE KRAMER

Former Los Angeles Galaxy goalie David Kramer was signed by the San Jose Clash, the MLS team announced. Kramer, who was 2-7 with a 1.44 goals against average when he was released by the Galaxy upon the return of Jorge Campos on June 13, played six games with the Colorado Foxes of the A-League, notching a 4-2 record with a 1.30 goals against average.

Kramer most likely will serve as Dave Salzwedel's backup on the Clash, who put goalie Tom Liner on waivers on Monday. Kramer, a native of Cupertino, was a first- team All-American at Fresno State in 1994.

SPRINTER BAILEY

OUT OF LINZ MEET

Canadian Olympic and world champion Donovan Bailey has pulled out of today's international track meet in Linz because of a thigh injury, organizers said. The 29-year-old world 100 meters record holder, who sustained the injury in Lausanne last Wednesday, was due to run in the 4x100 meters on the Canadian team which won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

-- Cuban hurdler Jose Perez has requested asylum in the United States, 10 days after leaving his team during a track and field championship in Puerto Rico, his lawyer said.

MOTOR SPORTS: Tony Furr, crew chief for Pepsi 400 winner John Andretti, was fined $50,000 before that race when NASCAR inspectors found an illegal carburetor mounting. . . . Ernie Irvan, who made one of auto racing's great comebacks after he was nearly killed in a crash three years ago, won't be driving for Robert Yates after this season. Yates, owner of Robert Yates Racing, said he is not renewing Irvan's contract, and the decision is his alone. . . . Buzz Calkins, the Indy Racing League co- champion last year, blew an engine and hit a wall while testing at the New Hampshire International Speedway, breaking an ankle and suffering a mild head injury. Calkins was awake and alert, but was being kept overnight for observation at a Concord hospital.

JURISPRUDENCE: Prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence against NBC sportscaster Marv Albert when they try him on forcible sodomy and assault and battery charges in September.

OBITUARY: Jerry Doggett, who broadcast Los Angeles Dodgers games from 1956-87, died of natural causes Monday in San Jose at 80. He is survived by his wife, Jodie, a daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter. Funeral services will be tomorrow in Morgan Hill.

COLLEGE: Villanova University has stripped John du Pont's name from a campus sports arena named after the chemical fortune heir who was convicted of murder earlier this year.